Recent progress on the global electrical circuit

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 135-136, Issue , 2014, Pages 208-227

  Williams, Earle ^a   Mareev, Eugene ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Electrified shower clouds; Global electrical circuit; Lightning; Mesoscale convective complexes; Schumann resonances

Indexed keywords

11-YEAR SOLAR CYCLE; CONDUCTIVITY PERTURBATIONS; EARTH IONOSPHERE WAVEGUIDE; ELECTRICAL QUANTITIES; GLOBAL ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; SCHUMANN RESONANCES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; GAMMA RAYS; LIGHTNING; STORMS;

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; LIGHTNING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SOLAR CYCLE;

BEIJING [CHINA]; BRAZIL; CHINA; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL];

EID: 84889584661     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.05.015     Document Type: Review

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